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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of La Pointe taken from Big Bay Road on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Residence at La Pointe, Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
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| Description: | Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, plays in boat. The photograph was originally titled "The Lone Boatsman". |
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| Description: | View across water towards Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, fishing from a rock on a misty morning near the family home. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home. |
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| Description: | Sugar Bowl rock formation. In the foreground is a man in rowboat with the name "Hattie" painted on its side. The river is smooth as glass, and on the oppos... |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Minnesota. Train whistling (steam rising) for a crossing. Two men are on a train, with one standing next to the engine. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Artesian Well, located near the intersection of Wisconsin Street and South Minnesota Street (since renamed Wacouta). It was dubbed by some... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | Cows drinking water from a tank in a rural pasture. |
| Date: | 10 10 1941 |
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| Description: | Eight Girl Scouts kneeling around a campfire inside a campfire ring at Camp Indianola. |
| Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing against a wall, behind the Fauerbach Brewing Co. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and Lake Monona is in the background. |
| Date: | 10 23 1937 |
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| Description: | Close-up of damaged Chevrolet in a ditch next to Highway 12 near Highway KP & Roxbury, looking north, with a farmstead in the background. |
| Date: | 11 12 1936 |
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| Description: | Chicago & Northwestern Railroad tracks, looking west at the crossing of S. Blair Street, King Street, E. Wilson Street, and Williamson Street. Shows Chicag... |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards a collapsed ice house. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of South Pinckney Street from the Wisconsin State Capitol, with East Washington Avenue to the left and Lake Monona on the distant right. The ... |
| Date: | 05 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River. |
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